Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunity:

CFP: Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy, Accra, 27-30 June 2020 [info]
- Note: " Part of the conference programme will be organised and run by Liberian refugees living in the nearby Buduburam camp." Submisssion deadline for papers and panels is 4 November 2019.

Blog posts & media:

African Migration and the Charade of ‘Return to Safety’ (Africa is a Country, Oct. 2019) [text]

"Eritrean Refugees Defy Border Closures Only to Find Hardship in Ethiopia," The New Humanitarian, 21 Oct. 2019 [text]

‘How is your research going to benefit me?’: Bringing Findings Back to Communities in Ghana (ODI Blog, Oct. 2019) [text]

"Pressure Builds on Burundian Refugees in Tanzania Amid Threat of Forced Return," The New Humanitarian, 15 Oct. 2019 [text]
- See also related commentary.

Regional Exchange on Experiences in Supporting Resilience and Durable Solutions to Internal Displacement in the IGAD Region, 12th Regional Consultative Process (RCP) of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Migration, Addis Ababa, 7-8 Oct. 2019 [info]
- Read the concept note.

Publications:

Conflict Trends in Africa, 1989–2018 (PRIO, Oct. 2019) [text]

Nigeria at a Crossroads: The Political Stakes of Migration Governance (MEDAM, Oct. 2019) [text]

*No Confidence: Displaced South Sudanese Await ‘Real Peace’ (Refugees International, Oct. 2019) [text]

*Owned Spaces and Shared Places: Refugee Access to Livelihoods and Housing, Land, and Property in Uganda (REACH, Sept. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Quarterly Mixed Migration Update (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2019)
- East Africa
- North Africa

- West Africa

Returning to Stability? Refugee Returns in the Great Lakes Region (International Refugee Rights Initiative, Oct. 2019) [text]
- See also French version.

Scaling Fences: Voices of Irregular African Migrants to Europe (UNDP, Oct. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related UN news story.

Shifting Borders: Africa’s Displacement Crisis and Its Security Implications (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Oct. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also French version.

The State of African Regional Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms (2018-2019) (Amnesty International, Oct. 2019) [text]

War, Migration and Work: Changing Social Relations in the South Sudan Borderlands (Rift Valley Institute, Oct. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (3 Oct. 2019)
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (3 Oct. 2019)

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